Jazz Quotes - Page 23

You must own it to play it.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the real experience of jazz takes place. I'm not familiar with the Boswell Sisters.

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

The true artform is being a human being.

I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

I like to mix and match things so I'm infusing a little bit of jazz, a little bit of classical, a little bit of soul, into the whole blues idiom and I'm coming up with something that I'm really interested in.

Always pack your uniform on top.

Jazz was my first love.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.